Children & Young Adult

Filmmaker Hali Lee grew up in suburban Kansas City, where she remembers her own high school prom as a drag. In later years, however, she became obsessed with trying to understand the appeal of this quintessentially American tradition—was it the pageantry, the poignant pretensions of teenagers dressing up as ‘adults,’ the myth of prom as a pagan coming-of-age ritual, or the ersatz memories?

The human tragedy caused by the widespread use of land mines in warfare is a growing problem throughout the world today. Children are especially susceptible to being maimed or killed by stepping on anti-personnel weapons buried during military conflicts many years ago. This documentary is a case study of the problem.

This video, by comparing the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict with the previous struggle for liberation and democracy in South Africa, makes a universal statement about war and the effects of war on young people on both sides of the conflicts.

In 1988, filmmakers Luc Cote and Robbie Hart went to Cusco, Peru, to make a documentary about the life of the city's street kids, runaway children from dysfunctional families or youngsters abandoned by their parents, who struggle to survive on their own.

Discusses the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989, which
established the standards that help to guarantee children a right to life, liberty, a name, a
nationality, an education and good health. The video shows the plight of many children
throughout the world and what UN agencies are doing to improve their lives.

This documentary chronicles one week in the life of street kids living in Cusco, Peru.
Working in collaboration with a shelter for some of Cusco's 3,000 street kids, the
filmmakers enlist several of the youngsters to form a street theatre company.

Portrays the courageous efforts of Argentine mothers and grandmothers to locate their
children and grandchildren who were among the innocent victims of the military junta's
"dirty war" against the opposition in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

This controversial documentary looks at Cuba's future from the outspoken
and dynamic perspective of Cuban youth. Interviews and spontaneous, street corner debates are interwoven
with rarely seen views of Cuban youth culture. The result is an unprecedented view of a
critical moment in Cuban history and Cuban/U.S. relations.

This shocking documentary, produced by the International Labour Organization, reveals
the exploitation of child labor in Brazil today, focusing on the daily lives of four children
in and around Rio de Janeiro.

Filmed on location in the People's Republic of China under clandestine conditions, this
documentary re-creates the remarkable experience of student leader Zhang Boli after his
flight from Beijing in the repressive aftermath of the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy
demonstrations in June 1989.

This documentary reveals the repression of children by the apartheid regime in South
Africa, where teenagers and children as young as seven years old are arrested on charges
such as "intimidation" or "stone-throwing," jailed, tortured, and sometimes killed.